Epigenetics in Cancer Prevention
Subtitle: Early Detection and Risk Assessment (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)
Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781573314305
Subjects: Medical diagnosis; Medical genetics; Oncology; Science; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Chemistry - General; Medical / Nursing; Risk factors; Science/Mathematics; Prevention; Cancer; Congresses; Genetic aspects
First sentence: The transition to malignancy requires an extensive reconfiguration of the genome's expression program that does not result entirely from actual changes in primary DNA sequence-i.e., mutation.